The

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

St Johnstone F.C. season was the club's eighth season in the

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and their eleventh consecutive season in the top flight of Scottish football. St Johnstone also competed in the

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,League Cup, winning both competitions. St Johnstone became only the fourth Scottish team, and only the second outwith the

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, to win a Scottish cup double.

Season summary

After the resignation of Tommy Wright, Alec Cleland took over as interim manager. After sixteen years at the club

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left before the season began along with Danny Swanson, Ross Callachan and David McMillan. Former player and assistant manager

Callum Davidson Callum Iain Davidson (born 25 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football player and coach who recently managed Scottish Championship club Queen's Park. Davidson played as a left-back for St Johnstone, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and P ...

was appointed manager. Former striker Steven MacLean retired to become a coach alongside Cleland who returns to his former role. The Saints dropped to the bottom of the table after four games without a goal, but after a 5–3 away win at Hamilton they moved off it. The Saints reached the final of the League Cup with a 3–0 win against Hibernian. On 28 February 2021, St Johnstone defeated Livingston in the

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thanks to a single goal from

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. In doing so, the club won their first League Cup title, their second ever major honour, and ended Celtic's dominating run of having won the last 12 major honours at stake in Scotland. On 22 May 2021, St Johnstone won the

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Hibs by a score of 1–0 in the final, with Shaun Rooney again netting the winning goal. With the victory, St Johnstone became just the fourth club in Scottish history to win the cup double after

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, and

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Results

Pre-season

Scottish Premiership

Scottish League Cup

Group stage

Knockout round

Scottish Cup

Squad statistics

Appearances

, - , colspan="5", Player who left the club during the season , -

Team statistics

League table

League Cup table

Transfers

Players in

Players out

References

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St Johnstone St Johnstone Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Scotland. The team competes in the , the second division of Scottish football. The club's name is derived from St John's Toun (or Saint Johnstoun)—an old name o ...